Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is an enduring classic of social and political theory deserving a fresh reading every generation. The modern reader, however, is likely to find a work that ran to over a thousand pages in its two-volume first edition a bit overwhelming. Presented here, therefore, is the first English-language compendium of The Spirit of Laws, together with the first English translation of the posthumously published treatise containing the physiological theory underlying Montesquieu's theory of climate.

The Spirit of Laws: A Compendium of the First English Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de

Baron De Labrede Et De

Philosophy

Univ. Of California Pr.

Oeuvres Completes De Montesquieu: Avec Les Variantes Des Premieres Editions (French Edition)

History

BiblioLife

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The Persian Letters

Irvington Pub.

Spicilege (Œuvres complètes de Montesquieu) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Voltaire Foundation

Textes publiés avec l¿aide de l¿Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. \nLe sixième volume de cette collection réunit les essais sortis d¿une première enquête sur la diffusion et l¿influence de l¿¿uvre de Montesquieu dans l¿Europe des Lumières: en Suède, Grèce, Pologne, Russie, Hongrie, Danemark. Le cadre chronologique examiné ne s¿arrête pas aux limites conventionnelles de la floraison du XVIIIe siècle mais il atteint les années trente du XIXe, afin de considérer le décalage temporel qui concerne la diffusion des Lumières dans ces pays. Les actes sont suivis par une synthèse des débats ayant caractérisé la table ronde.

Montesquieu du Nord au Sud: Actes de la Table Ronde Organisaee a Paris les 29 et 30 Janvier 1999 Avec le Soutien de la Maison Des Sciences de L'homme (Cahiers Montesquieu)

World Literature

Part of Oeuvres Completes de Montesquieu .

Oeuvres Et Ecrits Divers: v. 8: Memoire Sur Les Dettes De L'Etat, Le Temple De Gnide, and Other Texts (Œuvres complètes de Montesquieu) (French Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

Part of Oeuvres Completes de Montesquieu 
.

Aiuvres Complaete De Montesquieu: v. 1: Lettres Persanes. Introductions Generales De L'edition (Œuvres complètes de Montesquieu) (French Edition)

The Persian Letters (Hackett Publishing Co.)

Based on the 1758 edition, this translation strives for fidelity and retains Montesquieu's paragraphing. George R. Healy's Introduction discusses The Persian Letters as a kind of overture to the Enlightenment, a work of remarkable diversity designed more to explore a problem of great urgency for eighteenth century thought than to resolve it: that of discovering universals, or at least the pragmatic constants, amid the diversity of human culture and society, and of confronting the proposition that there are no values in human relationships except those imposed by force or agreed upon in self-interested conventions.

Montesquieu, Baron de La Brede et de

Healy, George R.

Literary

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

"Republication of David Lowenthal's elegant translation of Montesquieu's neglected study of the Romans--an indispensable source for understanding the philosopher's treatment of Rome in The Spirit of the Laws--makes the book available to a new generation of English-language readers. Lowenthal's perceptive introduction and useful notes also deserve the attention of those who can read Montesquieu in the original French." --James W. Muller, University of Alaska, Anchorage

Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (Hackett Classics)

Lowenthal, David

Ancient Civilizations

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